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Wynton Marsalis to Deliver the Commencement Address at
Juilliard's 113th Commencement Ceremony

Friday, May 18, 2018, at 11am in Alice Tully Hall
 
Final Commencement Ceremony for Juilliard President Joseph W. Polisi
 
Grace Bumbry, Ron Carter, Lynn Nottage, Tina Ramirez, and Ann Ziff
To Receive Honorary Doctorates
Ceremony Will Be Live Streamed at juilliard.edu/live
NEW YORK -- The Juilliard School today announced that alumnus Wynton Marsalis, trumpeter, director of Juilliard Jazz Studies, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, will address the graduates at the school's 113th commencement ceremony, which takes placeFriday, May 18, 2018, at 11am in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. Mr. Marsalis received an honorary doctor of music degree from Juilliard in 2006. This will be the final commencement for Juilliard President Joseph W. Polisi, who has had a long association with Mr. Marsalis and asked that he be the commencement speaker. In July, Damian Woetzel will begin as the school's seventh president.

During the ceremony, Juilliard will confer honorary doctorates upon five remarkable individuals: opera singer Grace Bumbry; bassist and former Juilliard faculty member Ron Carter; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Lynn Nottage; Ballet Hispánico founder Tina Ramirez; and Ann Ziff, philanthropist and chairman of the Metropolitan Opera. Ms. Bumbry and Mr. Carter will be receiving honorary doctor of music degrees; and Ms. Nottage and Ms. Ramirez will be receiving honorary doctor of fine arts degrees. Ms. Ziff will be receiving an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.

President Polisi will read special citations and present degrees to all five honorees, who will be garbed in Juilliard's traditional academic robes and velvet caps and who will receive their ceremonial doctoral hoods onstage.

The ceremony will be live streamed at juilliard.edu/live.

Biography of the Commencement Speaker

Wynton Marsalis
('81, trumpet) is director of jazz studies at Juilliard and managing and artistic director at Jazz at Lincoln Center. A world-renowned trumpeter, composer, educator, and leading advocate for American culture, he was born in New Orleans in 1961 and made his recording debut as a leader in 1982. He has since made more than 80 jazz and classical recordings and has won nine Grammy Awards. In 1983 he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammys in the same year. To date he is the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards in five consecutive years (1983-87).
 
Mr. Marsalis is the recipient of honorary doctorates from more than 25 of America's top academic institutions including Columbia, Harvard, Howard, Princeton, Yale, and Juilliard. His creativity has been celebrated the world over. In 1997 he became the first jazz artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields. In 2001 he was appointed Messenger of Peace by Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, and in 2005, he received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. government. In 2016 he received the National Humanities Medal for his work inspiring music lovers everywhere to embrace America's quintessential sound.
 
Mr. Marsalis has written six books including Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz PortraitsMoving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life, and most recently, Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!. Mr. Marsalis helped lead the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center's home, the Frederick P. Rose Hall, which opened its doors in 2004.